Edward Grey

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (25 April 1862-7 September 1933) was British Foreign Secretary from 10 December 1905 to 10 December 1916, succeeding Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice and preceding Arthur Balfour.

Biography
Edward Grey was born in London, England in 1862, and was educated at Winchester and Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1885 for the Liberal Party, representing Berwick upon Tweed. In the government of Lord Rosebery, he served as under-secretary to the foreign office. As a Liberal Imperialist, he strongly supported Britain's effort in the Second Boer War, but Henry Campbell-Bannerman still appointed him as Foreign Secretary in 1905. He was responsible for the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907, and for negotiating an end to the First Balkan War of 1912-13. In 1914, he persuaded the British Cabinet to go to war, because Germany had violated Belgian neutrality. He lost office in 1916, when David Lloyd George formed a new government. After the war, he was a prominent supporter of the League of Nations.